Broken But Unbowed Audiobook (Free)
- Van Tracy
- 7 h 20 min
- Simon & Schuster Audio
- 2016-05-17
Summary:
From Governor Greg Abbott-Texas governor and growing superstar in the Republican Party and among the initial prominent politicians to govern from a wheelchair-comes this deeply personal and inspiring life story and an idea to restore America to greatness in what Newt Gingrich phone calls a “vivid and compelling” browse.
Greg Abbott shed his capability to walk when a huge oak tree crashed straight down on his back, fracturing vertebrae into his spinal cord, leaving him forever paralyzed. At twenty-six years old, he felt about Broken But Unbowed that the near future he had dreamed of was eliminated. But he shortly realized our lives aren’t defined by our challenges, but by how exactly we respond to them. He went on to get over his paralytic restrictions to be the longest-serving lawyer general in Texas history and today governor, all while within a wheelchair.
Greg Abbott waged an archive number of legal challenges against the federal government that has come unhinged from your Constitution. He also led legal battles to defend the Second Amendment, the Tenth Amendment, and spiritual liberty. He individually appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court to guard the Ten Commandments monument in the Texas Capitol Grounds-and gained.
Through these fights he recognized that his personal story held an important parallel to America’s current challenges. The Constitution that forms the building blocks of our country has been broken, but the people of this country remain determined to achieve American greatness. Abbott points out that it is up to us to revive America to its rightful luster and power in the world, rising triumphant from our stumbles.
In Broken but Unbowed, Governor Abbott describes firsthand what it was prefer to be around the frontlines of the historic battles that have sophisticated the Constitution as well as the lessons he’s discovered along the way, offering solutions that may bring us back a government that lives up to the American Desire.
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